Just curious how other people who use an envelope system or other cash-only system handle it when you have an expense in one of your cash categories that you can't pay for with cash. I had to write a check that I hadn't anticipated this week, for example, when the recipient wouldn't take cash (so that there would be a traceable record of payment). I can foresee it coming up with buying online, too.
Seems like the ideal thing would be to plan in advance and take out less cash to begin with, but if you haven't done that, what do you do? What I ended up doing was creating a new "bank oweback" envelope and moving the amount of the check from the Household Miscellaneous envelope to Bank Oweback. I wrote the amount and where it came from on the envelope. Next paycheck, I plan to withdraw that much less money, and then I will move the cash back to the original envelope to make up the full amount.
Seems like the ideal thing would be to plan in advance and take out less cash to begin with, but if you haven't done that, what do you do? What I ended up doing was creating a new "bank oweback" envelope and moving the amount of the check from the Household Miscellaneous envelope to Bank Oweback. I wrote the amount and where it came from on the envelope. Next paycheck, I plan to withdraw that much less money, and then I will move the cash back to the original envelope to make up the full amount.